NOUN
- a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
How To Use kettledrum In A Sentence
- Mozart's ‘last words’ were his attempt to produce the sound of the kettledrums in his Requiem.
- The rain's playing muffled kettledrums on our roof, shimmering like sheets of cellophane outside.
- (TIM-puh-nee) Italian for kettledrums; the term timpani is often preferred by composers and performers. Timpani
- Socinians, and Quakers: all of whom Kettledrummle proposed, by one sweeping act, to expel from the land, and thus re-edify in its integrity the beauty of the sanctuary. Old Mortality
- At least in the imaginary versions for bass tuba or kettledrum I wager to say that he is right.
- Laughs I'm like the kettledrum just before the big splash! Walt Willey Weighs in on All My Children's New Love Triangle
- Kettledrummle was taen near us -- for Andrew Wilson's naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up. Old Mortality, Volume 1.
- Concertos for the timpani or kettledrums, the big boys of the orchestra, are certainly unusual but not entirely neglected.
- 'kettledrum' and that one's 'at home' you will be bored to death by hearing their version of it, so you might as well do one thing as the other. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
- Those who still admire Ezra Pound's pretentious poetry will presumably enjoy listening to him reciting while thumping on a kettledrum.
